{"nrhp_refnum":"88002350","name":"US Post Office-Malone","other_names":["Malone Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E. Main and Washington Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Malone","county":"Franklin County","state":"NY","lat":44.84873482800003,"lon":-74.28921068599993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story yellow brick and limestone post office at East Main and Washington Streets in the village of Malone, Franklin County, New York, built in 1934 and designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a distinguished example of 1930s federal Depression-era architecture. It blends Classical Revival, mainly Greek Revival, forms with modernistic features such as light brick and stylized decoration. It is larger than many New York post offices of its time and is one of few in the state built in the Classical Revival style.","narrative":"Malone's post office is a three-story, steel-framed building clad in yellow brick and trimmed with limestone, standing on a large corner lot at East Main and Washington Streets. Completed in 1934, it replaced an earlier federal post office and customhouse that was demolished in 1931. The Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury designed it under Louis A. Simon. Its seven-bay front is dominated by two-story limestone pilasters and carved spandrels, including an eagle above the entrance. The restrained design combines Greek Revival-inspired forms with streamlined, modernistic touches such as pale brick and a lack of cornices on the main block. Inside, the public lobby keeps its marble wainscot and pilasters, bronze lockboxes, box-beamed plaster ceiling and wood screenline. Congress authorized the project in 1931 as part of a Depression-era building program. The building is larger than many contemporary New York post offices, reflecting the importance of this north country community.","period_of_significance":"1934","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect (Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury)","architectural_style":"Classical Revival (Greek Revival-derived, with modernistic influences)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, government-owned and still in use as a post office; the public lobby is described as almost entirely intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.926327-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002350.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002350/48ba9d500c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002350/48ba9d500c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office-Malone_NY_Nov_10.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Post_Office-Malone_NY_Nov_10.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100011536","name":"Malone Residential Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/malone-residential-historic-district-100011536/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312968","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Malone,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7890998"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/franklin-county/us-post-office-malone-88002350/"}